Scottish clan

She lives in a castle in the Scottish Highlands with her mother, Queen Elinor, her father, King Fergus, and her three younger brothers. She is a free-spirited red-haired girl who spends most of her time doing archery. She views her role as a princess as a duty full of expectations and…

She felt right at home, living in her Seanmhair’s cottage and with Scotland, as her new address. Scotland had actually always been her second home. It was going to take only a small amount of time to get acclimated to her new living arrangement and the Scots’ way of life. Aileana decided she should take a walk into town to see if any of her friends might be out and about. It was a magnificent sunny day, now that the morning mist had burned off. As she walked along the sidewalk in town, the smell…

..The Carraways are something of a clan, and we have a tradition that we’re descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch, but the actual founder of my line was my grandfather’s brother, who came here in fifty-one, sent a substitute to the Civil War, and started the wholesale hardware business that my father carries on today.”(3) In this it is seen that Nick comes from relatively new money, but yet many in his family tell others that they come from a prominent Scottish family, the Buccleuchs, tracing…

book of Selkie tales. She subsequently told us the story of the old book of Selkie legends. She first received the book from her new husband Mackenzie on their wedding night. Her Mackenzie used the book to help her understand his story of his Selkie clan. He thought the book, would be a way to help her with the knowledge he planned on sharing with his new bride. Aileana had tears in her eyes that threatened to leak out; at hearing such a beautiful story of her grandfather’s love. Her Seanmhair…

She aced the interview with the oil company and would start her new job in two weeks. She would work as the new Drilling Fluids Engineer, most often referred to as the ‘Mud Man’. Or ‘Mud Person’ as it pertained to her situation on the oil platform in the North Sea, off the coast of Durness, Scotland. With her degree as a petroleum geologist in hand, but brief time working in the field, she applied for the mud engineer position. The limited extent of her fieldwork occurred during summers and…

Many works such as “Macbeth”, “Beowulf”, “11/22/63”, seem to portray the importances of loyalty, bravery, and internal conflicts. These characteristics often determine the fate of a character. For example, in the book “11/22/63”, the main character Jake Epping tried to stop the assassination of JFK, and during the process, he failed many times due to his emotional weaknesses and conflicts with others and himself. All of the three books share similarities when it comes to internal conflicts and…

"What to the slave is the Fourth of July" (BrainyQuote). During my time, The Fourth of July to a slave was not a day to celebrate our freedom. It was a time of harsh treatment with a lack of respect to our color. Our kind was led to believe when our Founding Fathers wrote the Declaration of Independence, that every man was created equal. We had no right to an education, because we weren 't allowed to read and write, even less learn the alphabet. Many of the things that had occurred in my life of…

Through experience it has been learned that White people do not typically identify strongly with race nor are they typically impacted by it. Very few White people acknowledge white privilege or have felt white guilt. I am a White girl however who has experienced both. I was always very racially aware from a young age, I knew that people around the world lived very different lives, had drastically opposite beliefs, and had a particular way of viewing the world, all of this fascinated me and I…

Brave enough to see it: Perrault, Andersen, Disney and the Stigma of Inevitable Heteronormativity in Fairy Tales ‘Fairy tale’ is a genre of storytelling that is deeply ingrained into our persons and cultures. In this essay I will expose the idea that heteronormative ‘happy endings’ are their inevitable conclusion. My main points of reference will be Charles Perrault’s Little Red Riding Hood, both Hans Christian Andersen and Walt Disney’s versions of The Little Mermaid, as well as Disney’s more…